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, and different network layers. At the individual level, homophilous tendencies are persistent across time and network … those characteristics. We also document the nuanced impact of network connections on changes in Grade Point Average …
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We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …
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How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to disentangle various mechanisms such as the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs as well as productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge...
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We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub … firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs' types. Network membership is observable, which … allows lenders to offer different interest rates to network and stand-alone entrepreneurs. We show that a network outcome can …
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In this paper, we develop a network perspective on the welfare gains from trade in today’s internationally fragmented …
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The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network …
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The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms’ potential for economic growth and technological transfers across countries. What determines the location of offshore production? How do countries' policies and...
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We model network formation in a firm. Agents learn about the quality of their working relationships with each other … the time pattern of history dependence in an agent's network as a function of his tenure. Mutual openness of newly arrived …'s hiring cohort to be disproportionately represented in his network. When members of a network formed within a firm are …
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-order connections in the world trade network. We apply our methodology to a sample of 204 countries spanning the period from 1962 to … data sets or alternative variations of the integration measure. Overall, this suggests that a network-based approach to …
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We propose a new method for measuring gender and ethnic stereotypes in news reports. By combining computer vision and natural language processing tools, the method allows us to analyze both images and text as well as the interaction between the two. We apply this approach to over 2 million web...
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